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Chinese anti-scam team arrives in Myawaddy
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 07/07/2025
» TAK - A team from China's Criminal Investigation Bureau has arrived in Myanmar's Myawaddy border township to discuss help for Chinese victims of the scam centres that continue to operate there, a reliable source said on Monday.
Chinese assistant minister may receive Chinese scam victims at border
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 16/02/2025
» TAK: Chinese Assistant Public Security Minister Liu Zhongyi arrived in Mae Sot district on Sunday as observers expected him to escort hundreds of Chinese victims of call scam gangs back to their homeland.
Friendship Bridge bomb heightens fear
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 25/04/2022
» MAE SOT, TAK: A car bomb went off at the foot of the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge on the Myawaddy side of the border opposite Mae Sot district late on Saturday night, a security source said on Sunday.
Illegal border crossers caught in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 14/03/2022
» TAK: Fifty-three Myanmar nationals were arrested at a security checkpoint in Mae Sot district late on Sunday night and charged with illegal entry.
Illegal migrants, Thai helpers caught in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 06/07/2021
» TAK: Eleven illegal migrants and three Thai helpers were arrested near the Myanmar border in Mae Sot district early on Tuesday. Two Chinese men who had fled quarantine were also apprehended.
Myanmar border crossers caught in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 14/06/2021
» TAK: Seventeen Myanmar nationals, one a child, were arrested for illegal entry late on Sunday night on the bank of the Moei River in Mae Sot district by a patrol of the 4th Infantry Regiment.
Searchers find lost mountain biker
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 30/04/2021
» TAK: A search party has found a Canadian mountain biker who lost his way in a forest in Mae Sot district on Thursday.
Chinese caught sneaking across border on mountain trail
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 19/02/2021
» TAK: Soldiers arrested three Chinese nationals and their guides illegally entering Thailand, in Mae Ramat district, late on Thursday night.
Fire roars through Karen refugee camp
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 10/02/2021
» TAK: A fire destroyed at least 100 houses at Thailand's largest camp for Karen refugees, in Tha Song Yang district, on Tuesday night. There were no reports of casualties.
Tak highway blocked by landslides
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 11/08/2019
» TAK: Traffic on Highway 1090 linking Mae Sot, Phop Phra and Umphang districts in this northern border province was blocked by landslides late on Saturday night. The road was partially reopened on Sunday morning.